Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days? Larry Wall More Quotes by Larry Wall More Quotes From Larry Wall Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along. Larry Wall language beautiful world At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language. Larry Wall diagonal levels language Save it for my unauthorized autobiography. Larry Wall autobiography computer You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? Larry Wall lines doe want I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence. Larry Wall incontinence computer levels Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control. Larry Wall computer mean Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy. Larry Wall computer language easy What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards? Larry Wall computer writing firsts If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them. Larry Wall views reason helping As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language. Larry Wall ada language thinking Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them. Larry Wall benefits fame life Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming. Larry Wall creativity trying thinking Just don't create a file called '-rf.' Larry Wall files computer The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.) Larry Wall court order years To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching. Larry Wall perl Well, I think Perl should run faster than C. Larry Wall should running thinking Besides, REAL computers have a rename system call. Larry Wall computer real A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy. Larry Wall should easy fall [Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby. Larry Wall escaping people moving Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright. Larry Wall occasions notion people
